Tagged: drunkard’s path
Sunday sketch #281
This week’s design is block based, but you’d be forgiven for missing that. I’ve coloured the blocks in this 5 x 5 layout fairly randomly, using only three colours.
You can probably tell that the major elements are drunkard’s path blocks, squares and rectangles. I originally started with only two colours, then added the black for some visual interest. Here’s the two-colour version of the first design:
Rotating the blocks creates new variations (on the left), as does rearranging the random colouring (on the right).
The possibilities would be endless!
These designs could be made into quilts using drunkard’s path blocks, rectangles and squares – plus some borders.
Sunday sketch #279
This week’s design is the logical evolution of Sunday sketch #278 – just extending the top and bottom of each ‘lemon’ shape using more curves.
I tried it in a bunch of two-colour palettes, and they all look good!
I didn’t try an expanded palette, so I’m not sure how I’d introduce a third or fourth colour into this design. I kinda like the simplicity of this version.
This week’s design is made up entirely from drunkard’s path / quarter-circle blocks. With a two-colour palette, you could make the entire quilt (minus borders) just by chain-piecing two block colourways.
Sunday sketch #278
On to something a bit different this week! No more wedges for awhile….
It’s back to curves! All drunkard’s path blocks again. Or are these quarter-circles? I have a feeling that the curves in drunkard’s path blocks don’t extend to the edges of the blocks, but I’ve never found a definitive description. Anyhoo, here we go.
I love this sorta teal blue / golden yellow combo. I discovered this cut-out lemon shape when tiling a completely different block, and decided to run with it. I love the secondary shapes that emerge… up top, there’s like a lacework of ‘D’ shapes going to and fro across the design. By just tweaking the direction of the lemons and the cut-outs in the negative space, the lace overlay becomes a series of alternating circles and squares. Can you see them?
The designs look just as good in the reverse colourway. (In the version on the left, I staggered the layout so the lemons sit in the corners.)
I can tweak the direction again, so the lace overlay becomes a series of new lemons, all facing perpendicularly to the dark blue lemons.
I love how much movement a single block with a few curves can give a design. And how many options there are for arranging blocks to create entirely new layouts.
These designs could be made using drunkard’s path blocks (or quarter-circle blocks) and squares. That’s it. I’ve only used two colours here, although obviously you could expand the palette. But with two colours, you’d just have to chain-piece your way through a bunch of curves and – voilà! – you’d have the prettiest quilt top. I really love this one (I know I say that all the time!); I really want to try making it!
